Improving data perturbation testing techniques for Web services

  • Authors:
  • Ana C. V. de Melo;Paulo Silveira

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo (USP), Rua do Matão, 1010, Cidade Universitária, 05508 090, São Paulo - SP, Brazil;Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo (USP), Rua do Matão, 1010, Cidade Universitária, 05508 090, São Paulo - SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The widespread use of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web services in commercial software requires the adoption of development techniques to ensure the quality of Web services. Testing techniques and tools concern quality and play a critical role in accomplishing quality of SOA based systems. Existing techniques and tools for traditional systems are not appropriate to these new systems, making the development of Web services testing techniques and tools required. This article presents new testing techniques to automatically generate a set of test cases and data for Web services. The techniques presented here explore data perturbation of Web services messages upon data types, integrity and consistency. To support these techniques, a tool (GenAutoWS) was developed and applied to real problems.